it was a horrible experience for a kid to try to go to school and learn in that environment. that is why i put so much emphasis now on making sure kids can go to school safely. >> how many kids do you have? >> one kid. >> your personal story everybody wanted to talk about, you said, i do not want to be one of those who are on talk shows. for people who have never heard this story, what is it? what happened when you were in junior high school? >> that was the hard part about the press. my personal story was more important than my first year as police chief in washington d.c. the interest is i was -- i ran away from home, and dropped out of school, 15 years old, got married, had my son when i was 15, i was a single mom with a ninth grade education when i started. i started with a ged. when i came to metropolitan. over the last 20 years, because i made a great decision to drop out of school, i spent 20 years trying to catch up and go back to school. now i have two master degrees. it was the hard way. home? >> i thought i knew everything. i was a teenager. i was failing school be